8 Apptitudes- Joe Gargery

Aptitude	Descriptor
2/ Linguistic	words and language, written and spoken; retention, interpretation and explanation of ideas and information via language, understands relationship between communication and meaning
7/ Logical	logical thinking, detecting patterns, scientific reasoning and deduction; analyse problems, perform mathematical calculations, understands relationship between cause and effect towards a tangible outcome or result
3/ Cultural	artistic ability, awareness, appreciation and use of sound and vision; recognition of tonal and rhythmic patterns, understands relationship between sound, vision and feeling
9/ Physical	body movement control, manual dexterity, physical agility and balance; eye and body coordination
3/ Spiritual	awareness and appreciation of one's place in the world both in a physical (manifested in an awareness and concern for the world in an environmental sense) and in a spiritual sense (manifested by an interest shown in things spiritual)
8/ Moral	awareness of personal responsibility and of right and wrong and steering clear of the wrong, an openness and honesty with those around them, a strong degree of common sense
6/ Personal	self-awareness, personal cognisance, personal objectivity, the capability to understand oneself, one's relationship to others and the world, and one's own need for, and reaction to change
6/ Social	perception of other people's feelings; ability to relate to others; interpretation of behaviour and communications; understands the relationships between people and their situations, including other people

Total=44/80

Aptitude	Descriptor
Linguistic	From what I can tell Joe would not have a very high linguistic aptitude as he did not go to school as his dad was a gambler,  "‘Didn’t you ever go to school, Joe, when you were as little as me?’  ‘No, Pip.’"
Logical	Considering that Joe is a blacksmith he must be able to think ahed other wise he would be a very bad blacksmith, "Joe was a well-knit characteristic- looking blacksmith"
Cultural	I cannot imagine that Joe would be cultural as he did not go to school, "‘Didn’t you ever go to school, Joe, when you were as little as me?’  ‘No, Pip.’"
Physical	As Joe is a black smith he must be quite strong and sporty.
Spiritual	As Joe has tried to not go to church before and does not like it I could imagine that he is not that spiritual, "Joe and I going to church, therefore, must have been a moving spectacle fore compassionate minds"
Moral	Joe seems to make sure that pip is always ok, even though he is not Pip's father. From this I think that he has good morals, however he may only be doing it because Pip has no one so it is kind of his responsibility.
Personal	Joe seems very aware of what is going around himself and what is happeneing with pip
Social	Joe does not seem that social as it seems as though mrs.Joe is always making the social arrangements.

Erasure Poetry

This is my erasure poetry. I have taken page 18 from the book Great Expectations. I then chose the words to make a poem/story and then "erased" the rest of the words. If you cannot read the picture, it says," If you can recommend your time for a little while perhaps you'll mention my sister, you looked at her solemnly as if you moved, then when i was your age i bolted.

Great Expectations Wordle

My Wordle

Formal Terms:-

• Father 
• Mother
• Sir

Deppressing Factor:-

• Church yard
• Tombstone
• Never
• Dead
• Dark
• Black

Emotions:-

• Frightened
• Fearful
• Strong
• Thought

Researching sentances

Our task was to use resources readerched by another group of students to write a 10-point biography. The challenges that we had included:

• Access
• There was too much information
• There was not enough range in links.
• Some of the sources were not reliable and looks dodgey

Pastiche of Dickens

   "Stop Pushing!" cried a terrible voice, as a teacher started up from the canteen at the side of the pushing children. "Keep back, you little devil or i'll cut your throat!"
    A fearful man, all in coarse gray, with a great power over the children. The proctor. A man with grey hair, and with a long black suit and with black shoes. I pointed out to where the younger years lay, on the flat corridor behind the trays. The man, after looking at me for a moment, sent me back, with a small grin, thinking he had stopped me...

The Decision

Over the holiday I have decided to study the book Great Expectations I will study this over the next term. Here is the opening sequence:


Chapter I

My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my
infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit
than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.
I give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the authority of his
tombstone and my sister,--Mrs. Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith.
As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness
of either of them (for their days were long before the days of
photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like were
unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on
my father's, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man,
with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription,
"Also Georgiana Wife of the Above," I drew a childish conclusion that
my mother was freckled and sickly. To five little stone lozenges, each
about a foot and a half long, which were arranged in a neat row beside
their grave, and were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of
mine,--who gave up trying to get a living, exceedingly early in
that universal struggle,--I am indebted for a belief I religiously
entertained that they had all been born on their backs with their hands
in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of
existence.